49 Compaer similar passages in the Anti-Marcion, iii. I and iv. 21.
53 Cum suis impedimentis profusum.
55 Hanc venerationem naturae. Compare Tertullian's phrase, "Illa sanctissima et reverenda opera naturae," in the Anti-Marcion, iii. 11.
57 Per lidibria nutritum. Compare the phrase just before, "smiled on with nurse's fawns"-"blanditiis deridetur." Oehler, however, compares the phrase with Tertullian's expression ("puerperii spurcos, anxios, ludicros exitus,") in the Anti-Marcion, iv. 21.
59 Haec: i.e. man's nativity and his flesh.
60 Literally, "by a heavenly regeneration."
61 Revera. [I cannot let the words which follow, stand in the text; they are sufficiently rendered.]
63 Aufer, Marcion. Literally, "Destroy this also, O Marcion."
67 Paul was of great authority in Marcion's school.
70 The humiliation which God endured, so indispensable a part of the Christian faith.
71 Matt. x. 22, Mark. viii. 38, and Luke ix. 26.
73 That is, imaginary and unreal.
76 This term is alsmot a technical designation of the divine nature of Christ in Tertullian. (See our translation of the Anti-Marcion, p. 247, note 7, Edin.)
77 This term is alsmot a technical designation of the divine nature of Christ in Tertullian. (See our translation of the Anti-Marcion, p. 247, note 7, Edin.)
78 This term is alsmot a technical designation of the divine nature of Christ in Tertullian. (See our translation of the Anti-Marcion, p. 247, note 7, Edin.)
80 See his Adv. Valentin, chap. 25.
83 He has Appelles mainly in view.
84 Sine praejudicio tamen. "Without prejudice to their denial, etc."
85 The Roman version of the proverb is "out of the lime-kiln into the coal-furnace."
86 See Tertullian, de Proescr. Hoeret. c. xxx.
87 Ab eo: or, "from that event of the carnal contract." A good reading, found in most of the old books, is ab ea, that is, Philumene.
93 Quod, quia nascitur, moritur.
95 Ediscebat. Compare a fine passage of Tertullian on this subject in our Anti-Marcion, note 10, p. 112, Edin.
98 Sidera. Drawn, as they thought, from the stars.
100 Matt. xii. 48; Luke viii. 20, 21.
101 See our Anti-Marcion, iv. 19.
104 Literally, "nobody prevented its being, etc."
112 Contendens: "videlicet sponsionibus" (Oehler)
113 Literally, "Who is my mother, and who are my brethren?"-Christ's own words.
114 The alius is a genitive, and must be taken with sermonis.
116 Force of the indicative quale erat.
117 Luke xi. 27, 28. See also our Anti-Marcion, p. 292, Edin.
120 Ab igneo illo praeside mali: see Tertullian's de Anima. xxiii.; de Resur. Carn. v.; Adv. Omnes Hoeres. vi.